Open Records
Adoption News: Editorials Against N.J., Minnesota Open Records Bills
The largest circulation newspaper in New Jersey is calling on state legislators to reject a bill to open sealed adoption records. The Star Ledger takes issue with most of the arguments that the bill's backers have used to advance it, from adoptee rights to the need for medical histories. "Changing the law retroactively," it concludes, "is just plain wrong". The bill (S611) passed the New Jersey Senate earlier this week and now goes to the state's Assembly. The Minneapolis Star Tribune has written an editorial against a similar bill pending in Minnesota.
New Jersey's attorney general
- VirginiaC's blog
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Adoptee Rights in the news
It looks like the push for open records for adoptees got a big boost with this article in USA Today, even quoting not only the usual suspects like reputed agency shill Thomas Atwood, but also Ann Fessler and the sometimes-too-acerbic-for-prime-time, yet always fab, Marley Greiner. The report starts out in Maine, where state Senator Paula Benoit was responsible for getting a new law on open records passed ... and found her birth family in the process.
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